Media outlets, including Reuters, published a new video of the moment they tried to control the teenager who stabbed a priest in a church west of Sydney, where he heard screaming in Arabic.
On Monday, police and witnesses said that at least four people, including a bishop and a priest, were injured in a stabbing incident in a church in a suburb of Sydney.
Australian police confirmed the arrest of a 15-year-old person who approached the altar of an Assyrian church and began stabbing Bishop Mar Mary Emmanuel, which sparked panic among the worshipers who began screaming.
Amid the chaos, a number of worshipers rushed to take cover while others tried to control the attacker during the incident that occurred at the Church of the Good Shepherd in the Weakley suburb, west of Sydney.
A small group of Assyrian Christians live in this neighborhood, a large number of whom fled persecution and war in Iraq and Syria, according to Agence France-Presse.
A video clip circulated on social media and published by Reuters showed worshipers trying to stabilize the attacker, appearing as if they were speaking to him in Arabic.
In the video, a person was heard shouting at the attacker, saying: “Who incited you?” before the second responded: “If he had not insulted my Messenger, I would not have come here. If he had not involved himself in my religion, I would not have come here, but he is involving himself in my religion.”
Police and eyewitnesses said that at least four people were injured, including Bishop Emmanuel, who gained great fame during the Corona virus pandemic.
Who is Emmanuel?
He is an ultra-conservative leader of the Assyrian Orthodox community and has a large presence on social media, with 17,000 followers on Facebook and 200,000 on YouTube.
Also, the videos he posted on the TikTok platform received millions of views.
During the clips he posts on social media, Emmanuel works to attract hard-line Christians with his anti-LGBT sermons, according to the newspaper. Sydney Morning Herald.
His widely circulated clips adopt extremist views on American and Russian politics, in addition to claiming that Satan founded the United Nations, according to the same source.
He said in a clip attributed to him: “When a man calls himself a woman, he is neither a man nor a woman… You are not a human being… I will not address you as a human being anymore, because the matter is not my choice, but your choice,” according to the network.ABC“American.
In July 2021, during the height of the pandemic, he described Australia’s lockdown restrictions as “mass slavery”.
He claimed that the risks posed by Covid-19 were “exaggerated” and that vaccines were unnecessary because people’s natural immune systems would fight the virus.
He said that the pressure resulting from closures and the spread of vaccines causes more harm than the virus itself, rejecting advice issued by the government, scientists and doctors, according to the newspaper. telegraph Londoner.
He touched on the victory of US President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential elections during one of his sermons posted on TikTok, and said: “It was 100 percent rigged by secret societies.”
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